ABSTRACT
The aim of this article is to show that art has philosophical relevance for Gadamer solely insofar as it remains free from aesthetics. The concepts that define the aesthetic understanding of art, i.e. subjectivism, experience and objectivism, are built upon the central notion that characterizes aesthetics: the aesthetic differentiation. The aesthetic differentiation implies an ontological difference that isolates the artistic and establishes a discontinuity between art and reality. The aesthetic non-differentiation that Gadamer exposes does not only restore the continuity, but it also affirms that art belongs to reality insofar as it transforms it. In art grows the being of the real in the sense that art is the reality itself transformed in its own truth.
Keywords
Gadamer; aesthetics; art; hermeneutic; aesthetic differentiation; aesthetic non-differentiation; truth